Improvement in skates



J. D. KELL0G G,1r.

Skates. No.l49,225. Patentedmarchs1',1s74.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

yJ. DW'IGrlEITv KELLOGG, JB., OF NOBTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,225, dated March 31, 1874; application filed July 29, 1873.-

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J. DWIGHT KELLOGG, Jr., of Northampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skates; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specication, in Which- Figure l is a top or plan view Fig. 2, a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a cross-section.

The invention relates to means for fastening skates rigidly to the foot in a convenient way, in a short space of time, and so that all tendency to work loose isremoved.

The invention consists in attaching the clamps to two hinged plates that support the ball of the foot, and in thereby utilizing the weight of the skater to tighten and retain the skate in its true position. It also consists in the use of sliding clamps that can be readily adapted to different sizes of boots or shoes. It also consists in avoiding any play of the skate on the foot when both are lifted, by a novel mode of locking the plates that hold the clamps.

In the drawing, A is the runner of a skate, provided with the front riser a, to each side of which is rigidly attached a plate, B, having the outwardly-curved projections b b. The latter are bifurcated at the ends, and carry pintles, on which turn the eyes c c of footplates C C. The upper faces of these footplates C C are slightly concaved, to correspond with the usual convexity of the boot-sole that is expected to rest upon it. Beneath each of these plates is adjustably attached, by a slot and screw-bolt F, an angled clamp-plate, D, that slides in a slot of a downwardly projecting eye-plate,c1. -These clamps D D have a turned edge, d, that is intended to overlap the sole of shoe or boot. The foot being pressed upon the two plates C C, that turn together in the middle of the skate, said plates are heldfirmly down, and the clamps D D constrained to bite closely on the boot or shoe. Beneath the rea-r end of each plate C is located a catch, c2, which receives the end-bent spring-latch E, and is recessed on the inside, and curvilinearl y convened on the outside. This convexity acts upon the bent end of latch, and forces it back as the plates C C are pressed down, thereby locking the skate to the boot or shoe, and preventing any play when the foot is raised. The latch E has a handle, e, by the forward pressure of which (with the linger) the plates C C may be unlocked, and the skate quickly removed.

It requires but the briefest possible time to put on or take off these skates.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv l. The two hinged plates C C, carrying the clamps D D, sliding in the bent eyes c1, and folding together in the longitudinal medium line of the skate, to allow the weight of the skater to hold the clamps to their work, in the manner described.

2.,The slotted skate'clamps D D, arranged to slide in eyes c1, and on screw-bolts F F, when constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

3. The end-bent spring-latch E, working in the catches c2 c2 of pla-tes C O, constructed substantially as and for the purpose specified.

IVitnesses Hor/[EE EATON, A. P. PEOK. 

